"They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse."

"Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies."

"Fame is a bee.It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing."

"Luck is not chance it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned."

"Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath."

"Anger as soon as fed is dead 'tis starving makes it fat."

"And I, could I stand byAnd see you freeze,Without my right of frost, Death's privilege?"

"Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door."

"The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on."

"In lands I never saw, they say, Immortal Alps look down,Whose bonnets touch the firmament,Whose sandals touch the town, -Meek at whose everlasting feetA myriad daisies play.Which, sir, are you, and which am I.Upon an August day?"

"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven."

"A wounded dear leaps the highest."

"I wonder if it hurts to live,And if they have to try,And whether, could they choose between,They would not rather die."

"Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away."

"Glee! The great storm is over!"

"Her breast is fit for pearls,But I was not a "Diver" - Her brow is fit for thronesBut I have not a crest,Her heart is fit for home-I- a Sparrow- build thereSweet of twigs and twineMy perennial nest."

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."

"The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring."

"Faith-is the Pierless BridgeSupporting what We seeUnto the Scene that We do not-Too slender for the eyeIt bears the Soul as boldAs it were rocked in SteelWith Arms of Steel at either side-It joins-behind the VeilTo what, could We presumeThe Bridge would cease to beTo Our far, vacillating FeetA first Necessity."

"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."

"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."

"Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies..."

"The career of flowers differs from ours only in inaudibleness. I feel more reverence as I grow for these mute creatures whose suspense or transport may surpass my own."

"A great hope fellYou heard no noiseThe ruin was within."

"Split the Lark-and you'll find the Music, Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolled."

"THE MOON was but a chin of gold A night or two ago, And now she turns her perfect face Upon the world below. Her forehead is of amplest blond; Her cheek like beryl stone; Her eye unto the summer dew The likest I have known. Her lips of amber never part; But what must be the smileUpon her friend she could bestow Were such her silver will! And what a privilege to be But the remotest star! For certainly her way might pass Beside your twinkling door. Her bonnet is the firmament, The universe her shoe, The stars the trinkets at her belt, Her dimities of blue."

"Hope is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul -And sings the tune without the words -And never stops - at all -And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -And sore must be the storm -That could abash the little BirdThat kept so many warm -I've heard it in the chillest land -And on the strangest Sea -Yet - never - in Extremity,It asked a crumb - of me."

"That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality."

"But it is growing damp and I must go in. Memory's fog is rising."

"I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name."

"The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee A clover anytime to him Is aristocracy."

"Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell."

"Where thou art that is home."

"Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency."

"They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity."

"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

"For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy."

"Impossibility, like wineExhilarates the manWho tastes it; PossibilityIs flavoreless."

"I have no life but this, To lead it here; Nor any death, but lest Dispelled from there; Nor tie to earths to come, Nor action new, Except through this extent, The realm of you."

"Consciousness is the only home of which we know."

"The past is not a package one can lay away."

"Finite to fail, but infinite to venture."

"Fortune befriends the bold."

"Heart, we will forget him!You and I, to-night!You may forget the warmth he gave,I will forget the light.When you have done, pray tell me,That I my thoughts may dim;Haste! lest while you're lagging,I may remember him!"

"To shut your eyes is to travel."

"We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore."

"Bless God, he went as soldiers,His musket on his breast-Grant God, he charge the bravestOf all the martial blest!Please God, might I behold himIn epauletted white-I should not fear the foe then-I should not fear the fight!"

"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few."

"To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."